Have fun! I'm probably one of the few people that finds car shopping fun (don't ask me why). As a four-time Toyota owner, I just traded in my Camry a few weeks ago and bought a Hyundai. So far, I'm really happy with it, and it was priced comparably to the Toyotas and Hondas, but with more options, so I was actually able to get a nicer car for the same $$. And a 10 year/100,000 mile warranty doesn't hurt either!

Click to expand...

Hyundai makes excellent cars. They have come a long way in a very short time and is probably the best bang-for-your-buck out there.

I both like and dread car shopping at the same time. I don't like the back-and-forth but a car is a big purchase so that part is always fun. Our cars are paid for and this is the first time in a long time we haven't had a car payment. However, we are in a unique position to where we can afford a car payment, since almost everything else is paid for. The Mini actually holds its value quite well, surprisingly enough. We have a very specific number we're willing to finance for 3 years, and not a penny more (our goal is to pay it off in about half the time). As long as the Honda dealer gives us enough for the trade-in, and/or drops enough off the price of the car, we'll probably go for it. We have the advantage that we don't need the new car, so if our conditions aren't met, we'll walk away. We have the upper hand/advantage - at least we like to think we do.

It ain't much better in eastern NC - 96.8F, 50% humidity, "feels like" 109F. We hatests the summer, yes we do Precious....

Click to expand...

I grew up in Fayetteville, and while I miss friends back home I definitely do not miss the heat. Anything above 70 and I'm miserable! However, I seriously miss the severe thunder and lightening storms.... but now that I'm in Illinois I get to see more of em (call me crazy, but severe storms/tornados fascinate me). I recently spent many years on the west coast where the weather is very mild (a light drizzle and those people were freaking out about the "downpour").

Some have reported that CWM - especially if the wipe is run through Rom Manager - doesn't quite wipe everything... leaving ICS remnants that might conflict with JB installation.

I would recommend that you Google a zip called "Android Revolution HD Super Wipe". While there are several Super Wipes out there, I can only vouch for this one. In one flash, it FORMATS /data, /cache, /Dalvik, and /system. It completely wipes every bit away.

Here'e my procedure for flashing Jelly Belly:

Make a nandroid of ICS, and then copy EVERYTHING YOU OWN to the PC as a backup... including your backups!

In other (better) news, did a first run of my shell script in our QA environment today and it worked successfully. 12 different code deployments, taken care of by one automated script is so much easier than doing these manually. I can't wait until the whole process is fully automated and built into our ticketing system. Feels real awesome to have accomplished this. 450 lines of code in the main script and ~140 in each of the additional 7 scripts the main one calls.

Some have reported that CWM - especially if the wipe is run through Rom Manager - doesn't quite wipe everything... leaving ICS remnants that might conflict with JB installation.

I would recommend that you Google a zip called "Android Revolution HD Super Wipe". While there are several Super Wipes out there, I can only vouch for this one. In one flash, it FORMATS /data, /cache, /Dalvik, and /system. It completely wipes every bit away.

Here'e my procedure for flashing Jelly Belly:

Make a nandroid of ICS, and then copy EVERYTHING YOU OWN to the PC as a backup... including your backups!

I wiped and installed via recovery, but I'll try super wipe and follow your steps. I see JB2.2 is up, but you're still recommending 1.9?

Click to expand...

Captain Ron, I would not recommend anything that new & unproven unless you really have time to experiment on the bleeding edge. I need a PHONE so I want something tested and verified to work on 99% of phones.

Until I see no issues (or very few) on 2.2 in the Rootzwiki forum, I recommend 1.9

Captain Ron, I would not recommend anything that new & unproven unless you really have time to experiment on the bleeding edge. I need a PHONE so I want something tested and verified to work on 99% of phones.

Until I see no issues (or very few) on 2.2 in the Rootzwiki forum, I recommend 1.9

Click to expand...

Chief,

Well, since my first attempt last night was buggy, I'll go with your advice and stick with 1.9 for now.

It's absolute ball soup here (yeah, I love that phrase). Just got off work and I'm so tired. Going to meet the in laws for dinner. I'll try and stomach some food but with this heat, I have no appetite.

So the rumor is the fix for the Apple patent lawsuit is being incorporated into AOSP Jelly Bean. Which will mean the only non-crippled searches will be for those of us on the Jelly Bean roms derived from the IO nandroid. (Until the ROM devs find the code that disables it and re-enables it, ala El Tevo that is.

Putting puzzle pieces together here. Google said they would push an update to address this to all Galaxy Nexus devices regardless of carrier. Said update will be pushed within the next week. Today they announce that new Nexus would be sold with Jellybean in order to comply with the patent ruling and resume shipping in the next week.

So I'm reading this as JB is going to be pushed to all nexus within the next week regardless of carrier. Maybe I am overthinking it, but I can dream, right.

Putting puzzle pieces together here. Google said they would push an update to address this to all Galaxy Nexus devices regardless of carrier. Said update will be pushed within the next week. Today they announce that new Nexus would be sold with Jellybean in order to comply with the patent ruling and resume shipping in the next week.

So I'm reading this as JB is going to be pushed to all nexus within the next week regardless of carrier. Maybe I am overthinking it, but I can dream, right.

Click to expand...

Well the only phones Google has control over are the unlocked ones in the Play store. So I'm thinking it only goes out to those next week. On the bright side Verizon will be forced to rush the update for once or else face their own sales ban.

Hey JB users I had a wallpaper from the Vicious rom that looked like buckyballs I believe it was the last one in the wallpaper section. It was not live. I was wondering if someone could grab it for me and post it.

Heh Heh I can't help but think that BB's out sipping umbrella drinks on the sun deck thinking she's got us beat. And when she gets back she'll probably be the only Gnexer left in here that hasn't been running Jelly Bean forever

Nope, I'll be right there with her. Still holding out for AOKP or Liquid to take a crack at JB. As tempted as I am, I don't have time for some of the problems I've read about people having.

The M&M's are an excellent reason to see it. But let us not distract ourselves from Channing Tatum. The boy has moves. The only problem I had with the movie is that there was too much plot and talking, not quite enough half naked men dancing. But that's just me.

Click to expand...

I don't have time or inclination to set everything up again right now.

Putting puzzle pieces together here. Google said they would push an update to address this to all Galaxy Nexus devices regardless of carrier. Said update will be pushed within the next week. Today they announce that new Nexus would be sold with Jellybean in order to comply with the patent ruling and resume shipping in the next week.

So I'm reading this as JB is going to be pushed to all nexus within the next week regardless of carrier. Maybe I am overthinking it, but I can dream, right.

Well the only phones Google has control over are the unlocked ones in the Play store. So I'm thinking it only goes out to those next week. On the bright side Verizon will be forced to rush the update for once or else face their own sales ban.

Click to expand...

Verizon rushing an update is dangerous in my opinion but they are pretty dangerous without being forced to do anything so I guess it's 6 of one/half dozen of another.

-------

I'm back! Had a great time. Can't wait to do another one. I see you all behaved and we have some new friends in the Watering Hole. Hope everyone had a great 4th and have stayed cool in this awful heat.

So I am rather annoyed right now. After using my laptop to pay all my bills, I leave to get a printer cartridge. Upon returning, my internet is down. Yeah I can tether my lappy, but I can't watch Netflix without tethering to my PS3. Meanwhile, I also need to get some work down and need an internet connection, but again with the tethering. I don't want my Nexus to blow up while the whole house uses my phone as an internet hotspot. Seriously frustrated!